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U.S. packaging group WestRock has put a unit making soap dispensers and perfume sprayers up for sale in a potential $1 billion deal, as it seeks to streamline its portfolio after a recent merger, three people close to the matter said.

Indiana state environmental officials announced Thursday they found no air quality violations while recently investigating odor complaints at the local Pratt Industries facility.

A landmark Supreme Court ruling ordering a plantation company to pay a high line for illegal forest clearing is expected to serve as a deterrent for companies that seek to engage in deforestation.

DuPont will no longer contribute to active employees' pension plans, a move that will affect the retirement of 13,000 workers.

A new trial date has been set for a businessman and his wife charged with fraud. Green Box founder Ron Van Den Heuvel and Kelly Yessman Van Den Heuvel are now scheduled to stand trial July 31, according to court records.

Boreal Bioref Oy, a new Finnish company, said on Thursday it had signed a letter of intent with China's CAMC Engineering over an investment in a new 780-million euro ($836 million) pulp mill project.

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So the Polls got it wrong again - the American people have spoken decisively, if unexpectedly, just as the people in the United Kingdom did at the Brexit vote. Mr. Trump has pledged to make the USA great again. Will he also make the US paper industry great again?

Finnish pulp, paper and board maker Stora Enso expects to sign its first orders for food packaging boards from a new mill in China shortly and is not concerned by slowing Chinese growth, its chief executive said.

Finch Paper in December will conduct tests and market analysis of two new potential reuses of waste from the pulp-making process at the company's Glens Falls mill.

Indonesia's second-largest pulp and paper firm PT Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (RAPP) has completed its third paper mill and set its operational debut for next year to increase production and expand its exports to the international market.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement Nov. 3 with WestRock CP LLC. The company will pay $1.6 million in cash, plus stock shares valued at $3 million to resolve allegations related to hazardous waste near Prescott, Arizona.

The U.S.-Russia Business Council announced that Mark Sutton, Chairman and CEO of International Paper, has been unanimously approved by its Board of Directors to be the next Chairman of the USRBC.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation announced that Michael D. Hsu, currently group president North American Consumer Products, has been named to the role of president and chief operating officer (COO) and will join K-C's board of directors, effective January 1, 2017.

Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co. are expecting to get formal objections to their $60 billion merger from European Union regulators as soon as next month, listing potential antitrust concerns with their bid to form the world's biggest chemical company, according to two people familiar with the investigation.

SCA and Fotografiska (The Swedish Museum of Photography) in Stockholm have signed a partnership agreement aimed at highlighting how hygiene and health affect people's well-being.

Hood Container of Louisiana is installing new equipment at its St. Francisville paper manufacturing facility in a $61 million project that will add 10 jobs with an average salary of $51,450, plus benefits.

Firefighters on Monday gained control of a fire at a Clearwater paper facility in North Las Vegas that shut down traffic on a surface street for several hours.

Fortress Paper Ltd. has announced a major investment to advance its strategic project of utilizing birch to manufacture dissolving pulp at the Fortress Specialty Cellulose Mill located in Thurso, Québec.

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Stora Enso has finalized the co-determination negotiations regarding the consolidation of manufacturing of corrugated packaging in Finland, which will result in the company's corrugated packaging plant in Heinola to be closed permanently and packaging manufacturing transferred to the Lahti plant.